. Quarles' Emblems . i m. in Proti I ap. miserable condition of mankind, that has lost that for which he was created! alas! [what he lost? and whathath he found? he hath lost happiness for which he wasmade, and found misery for which he was not made: isgone? and what Is left? that thing is gone, without which heis unhappy; that thing is left, by which he is miserable: 0wretched men ! from whence are we expelled ? to what arewe impelled ? whence are we thrown ? and whither are wehurried? from our homeiinto banishment; from the sight ofG( I) into our own blindness ; from t
. Quarles' Emblems . i m. in Proti I ap. miserable condition of mankind, that has lost that for which he was created! alas! [what he lost? and whathath he found? he hath lost happiness for which he wasmade, and found misery for which he was not made: isgone? and what Is left? that thing is gone, without which heis unhappy; that thing is left, by which he is miserable: 0wretched men ! from whence are we expelled ? to what arewe impelled ? whence are we thrown ? and whither are wehurried? from our homeiinto banishment; from the sight ofG( I) into our own blindness ; from the pleasure of immortalityto the bitterness of death : miserable change ; from how greata good, to how great an evil! ah me ! what have I enter-prised ? what have I done ? whither did I go ? whither am I come , ^ EpiCx. midnight voice prevaild ; his musics thunderUnhingd the prison-doors, split bolts in sunder:And sittst thou here, and hangst the feeble wing ?And whinst to be enlarged ? soul, learn to
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